Three wheels and four...
By TMX Archives on 15th Oct 09
ONCE the Youth 65cc racing had finished, the start of Saturday's Adult Quad race was delayed 30 minutes to allow the tide to go out further and so the start straight was wide enough for the assembled Quads and Sidecars. A decent crowd of around 15,000 had gathered on the sun-kissed sands to watch the start of the racing.
Things got off to a bad start with a pile-up that involved around 10 or so quads approximately on the way down the start straight but thankfully injuries were no more than the odd broken bone. The start straight is now close to one and a third miles in length and wet all the way down and only as riders slowed near the end did the huge plume of spray subside. The crowd's reaction told how close David Hill (86) had come to flipping his Honda after hitting the braking rear wheel of Ben Morgan (21) sending Hills quad onto one wheel!
But it was Carl Bunce who took a clear holeshot to skip over the first dune which this year was just 50 yards from the end of the straight and only about six foot high. Bunce had fellow top riders Steffan Murphy, Jason MacBeth, David Baldwin and Paul Winrow plus a number of other riders in close attendance. Dune two was a similar build and neither did anything to stop most riders. As such, the first bike-stopping Weston dune was labelled up as number three and had a good height of some 20 or so feet of sand.
FOR FULL STORY SEE T+MX NEWS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2009
The Quads reach the first dune which seems to be more of a speed bump than a dune this year.